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“Remember Lot’s Wife: Be Ready, Be Watchful, and Do Not Look Back” Brothers and sisters in Christ, In today's Gospel, Jesus speaks about the coming of the Son of Man. He refers to two important events in the Old Testament: the days of Noah and the days of Lot. In the time of Noah, people were eating, drinking, marrying, and conducting their ordinary activities until the flood came and destroyed them. In the time of Lot, people were buying and selling, planting and building until fire and sulfur rained down from heaven. What is interesting about these examples is that the people were not necessarily doing anything wrong by eating, drinking, marrying, buying, or building. These are ordinary activities of human life. So what was their problem? Their problem was that they were so absorbed in their everyday activities that they failed to recognize the seriousness of their spiritual situation. They lived as though life would continue forever, without considering their relationship wi...

S inabi ni Jesus sa kanyang mga alagad: “Tulad ng nangyari sa panahon ni Noe, gayundin sa mga araw ng Anak ng Tao. Kumakain sila at umiinom, nag-aasawa ang mga lalaki at mga babae, hanggang sa araw na pumasok si Noe sa daong at dumating ang baha na pumuksa sa lahat. Tulad sa panahon ni Lot: kumakain sila at umiinom, nagtitinda at namimili, nagtatanim at nagtatayo. At nang lumabas si Lot mula sa Sodom, nagpaulan ang Diyos mula sa Langit ng apoy at asupre na pumuksa sa lahat. Ganito rin sa araw na ibubunyag ang Anak ng Tao. “Sa araw na iyon, huwag nang bumaba pa sa bahay ang nasa terasa para kunin ang kanyang mga gamit at huwag nang umuwi pa ang nasa bukid. Alalahanin n’yo ang asawa ni Lot. Mawalan ng kanyang sarili ang sinumang nagsisikap na magligtas nito at ang mawawalan naman ng sarili ang magsisilang nito sa buhay. “Sinasabi ko sa inyo: kung may dalawa sa isang higaan sa gabing iyon, dadalhin ang isa at iiwan ang isa pa; kung may dalawang babaeng magkasamang gumigiling, dadalhin ...